This is my first post in like a year, so howdy lol, I just felt like throwing my own 2 cents in : To me most 'street grappling' can be put...
I want to blunder around Valenwood :(
An obligation to remain within an art serves the master far more than it does the student. Instead of retaining people because of the quality of...
If the philosophical aspects you hope to develop are to do with Zen or Budo, you should know both of those are very truth centric. Learning them...
In rough chronological order... Shotokan based Kempo style- 3 Months training, unranked Tai Chi/Chi kung- 3 Months, non combative, but still...
To me 'chi' is a word like 'evil'; powerful, poetic, and absolutely useless in quantitative discussion.
Please reality There are many fundamentals to self defense, avoidance and deescalation being important aspects but not the entire picture. Would...
Firstly, apologies for my sporadic posting. Such is the nature of my internet access :) We put the fundamentals of self defence into practice...
Please reality So either way, you are saying that since it is up to the student to verify or rather experience their own understanding, growth,...
The problem with questions of this type is the implication that when an instructor posesses a certain quality or qualification, his teaching is...
Eh, better than him finding relgion *shrugs*
Not to mention the very origin of sport was as a venue where attributes useful in war could be cultivated and tested.
Stop trying to chisao Russia in the winter darn you!
I really think a lot of martial artists do not listen to their bodies. There seems to be this cult of how much pain you can take, some weird form...
Our culture is being laid back; Oh, and financially conservative, which is kinda paying off these days :) And as dominant as German armour...
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